Finished reading: You're a Miracle (And a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You by (ISBN 9781984823243)
sonicrocketman on pine.blog:I haven't had a haircut since January. I've been too concerned with the pandemic to get one even when shops re-opened in CA. Now it looks like I might need to wait many more months.
It's not a big deal, but it still sucks.
The other day I was hemming and hawing about whether I wanted to risk it by getting a haircut. Guess that decision is now made. It's been since March for me.
Want to read: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by (ISBN 9780061120077)
Gretchen Alice on twitter.com:What is everyone making for dinner this week?
Dinner this week? That feels like it’s a year away.
(I am bad at meal planning.)
Beard is coming along nicely.
As much as I’d like to, I’m not going to any cookouts today — playing it safe due to increased Covid cases. Sarah 5 and Elliott dropped off some food and this sunflower on my doorstep, though, so that was nice.
Bookmarked: Writing Stupid Code
gRegor Morrill on gregorlove.com:It Is Time to Do the Work
An interesting thread criticizing the book White Fragility and recommending alternatives: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1276909706422829058.html
Francesco Schwarz on francescoschwarz.com:Very nice, I like your approach. Thanks a lot for the snippet!
I’ve not heard from a lot of people using the module yet.
My impression is also that the module didn’t quite get the traction it deserves. Just love the work you have put into it!
By the way, we’ve been having weekly virtual indieweb meetups if you’d like to join.
Awesome, I will see if I can join.
Thanks a lot for your response, Gregor!
By the way, are you using the PW2 or PW3 version of the Webmention plugin? I'm still on PW2 myself but will likely switch to PW3 in the coming months. I plan to support both versions for a while, but since most new people will be on PW3 I'll feel more comfortable once I'm running that on my own site as well.
8pm is kinda late so I will have PESOS dinner beforehand. Look forward to seeing everyone at the , though!
Bookmarked: fmPDA
“fmPDA is a set of PHP classes for FileMaker's Data and Admin API. The special sauce, the fmPDA class: a replacement for FileMaker's API For PHP 'FileMaker' class, using the Data API. fmPDA provides method & data structure compatibility with FileMaker's API For PHP.”
I’m looking forward to the virtual IndieWebCamp West this weekend. You should join us if you’re interested in creating or updating your personal site and advancing the independent web. It’s free!
Cassie Evans on twitter.com:✨It's my new website daaay!
🎨 I had so much fun putting this together, I hope it makes some people smile.
💜 Built with 11ty, a ton of SVG, and a whole lotta love.
💻 http://www.cassie.codes
This is fantastic. Congratulations!
I attended .
Eric Metaxes on twitter.com:If Wilberforce walked into your church would he find faith to stand up for the unborn & against the lie of "reproductive rights"? Would Bonhoeffer find faith that stands against the Caesar of cultural marxism that DEMANDS kneeling to their intolerant agenda? Choose ye this day.
Or would Bonhoeffer find believers earnestly spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories such as “cultural Marxism”?
I’m attending .
I’m hanging out on Beatsense playing some music if anyone wants to join in: https://beatsense.com/limbo#/ cc @girlvsplanet @jdragz @spiffiness03
Francesco Schwarz on francescoschwarz.com:Thanks a lot for the explanation!
I’m already sending webmentions via Bridgy Publish. I altered your module to optionally include the publish URLs for (in my case) Twitter and Mastodon. I’ve done this in this file around that line. I’ve added a checkbox in my notes called “Post to Bridgy?”, and when that is checked I append the Bridgy publish URLs to $page->{$field} as additional URLs to process for webmentions.
The core of what I need is what you wrote here:
I wrote some more code that processes that response to get the tweet’s URL and updates the syndication link on the note.
That’s basically exactly what I’m looking for. I see if I can achieve that by myself, playing a bit around with it.
But thanks again for you reply, that clarifies a lot for me. And it’s also a bit sobering to see that apparently it’s really not that easy to automate the process. Looking around at all the #indieweb blogs and seeing all the syndicated links on notes frankly I felt quite stupid not understanding how all this folks are doing this automatically. Also one really can’t find a whole lot information around the web, which adds to the problem.
That’s an interesting approach to add the Bridgy Publish webmention. I’m glad it’s working well for you.
My approach is still part of the template files. I just reviewed it and it’s fairly simple, so I’m comfortable sharing it. Here is a gist. Let me know if you have any questions.
I’m excited to see more ProcessWire sites with webmention. I’ve not heard from a lot of people using the module yet. I’m definitely interested in improving the indieweb experience on ProcessWire. Bridgy Publish is an area that I have not worked on yet, partly because people can have templates set up a variety of ways and I’m not sure how to make a plugin that works with different setups.
By the way, we’ve been having weekly virtual indieweb meetups if you’d like to join. I think the closest timezone would be the London meetup. Check out events.indieweb.org for upcoming events. We have an active community chat as well: indieweb.org/discuss.
Francesco Schwarz on twitter.com:@gRegorLove How is your workflow when posting a note in ProcessWire and automatically posting it to Twitter via Bridgy? Where do you add the Bridgy webmention endpoint URLs? Or do you use another method?
I’ve used a variety of approaches over the years, from manual to semi-automatic. Here’s some different things I’ve done:
Initially I would publish a note, then use the interactive Bridgy Publish form from my account page. Your account page is https://brid.gy/twitter/isellsoap. Paste the URL of your note there, choose the options whether you want your original link appended to the tweet, then preview it. If it looks good, publish it. I then would copy the tweet’s URL and add it on my original note as a syndication link. See below on this note for an example of that syndication link.
After I did that for a while and it was working smoothly, I started to automate it more. Bridgy Publish lets you send a webmention to trigger the publish. I set up a custom bit of PHP code that would let me click a button to send off that webmention for the note I wanted to publish. Sending a webmention is a pretty simple POST request, so I used the WireHTTP class for that. When publishing to Twitter, the successful Bridgy response includes the Twitter API data for the tweet. I wrote some more code that processes that response to get the tweet’s URL and updates the syndication link on the note.
Note that all of this is separate from the Webmention plugin itself. The code for my semi-automatic publishing isn’t part of a plugin and isn’t very polished code, so I haven’t released any of it. If I can find a way to make it more user-friendly, I might release it, or at least write a tutorial with more guidance.
https://php.microformats.io is a useful tool to debug the microformats in your posts, by the way. Here’s the parsed result of this very note. The in-reply-to property is what Bridgy Publish uses to post a reply tweet. The syndication property is one way Bridgy maps your original post to the Twitter copy for sending responses back to you — particularly if you don’t include your original post link in the tweet.